Formula E's History-Making Women's Test | Pre-Season Testing

[@mk_annan22]

Props to Formula-E. Now we would like to see the on board drives of each of the female drivers like they did for their male counterparts.

[@Sebastianraikkonen_actualname]

I'm not watching a 6hr video

[@Vengeance566]

@@Sebastianraikkonen_actualnameno one is making you watch them

[@Sebastianraikkonen_actualname]

@@Vengeance566 1) I never said anybody was 2) There was a large lap time difference between the male and female drivers, I was sarcastically insinuating the women's fastest lap would take 6 hours to watch.

[@urbanstrencan]

Great work Formula E getting girls in the car, now we just need full time seat for one of them 😊❤

[@sam-sj1nc]

none of them were fast enough

[@Becky_Cooling]

Or more than one!

[@sam-sj1nc]

@@Becky_Cooling the fastest female was 2 seconds slower than the slowest man. so no, not even one

[@flyaway6671]

@@sam-sj1nc 3.4s according to the race, but the women are not fully physically prepared and not used to the cars. It would be interesting to see how close they can get but I can only imagine that the best will still be a backmarker.

[@sam-sj1nc]

@@flyaway6671 they will be seconds of a formula e backmarker. it wont be a good look for women in motorsports unless they find a decent female driver

[@ItsDeffoScott]

This is very cool. Would be great if we saw a more mixed grid.

[@Alpha-pk8tb]

Such a feat of privatizing test sessions to give women a chance of getting hands on top-level machinery should be encouraged by the FIA on other categories like WRC or WEC !!! Total respect Formula E !!!👏👏👏

[@Redmi-j4i]

Great work for putting these girls on the grid competing for maybe one day become a regular driver. As a father of four daughters who all race - on two and four wheels - is nice to see the effort is made for including young women to the top of the motorsports. Young girls need to see women in the top of the motorsport that inspire them to become one of them some day

[@hufjournallife7218]

All women in motorsport so I proud

[@christill]

I think it’s a good thing to do of course, and I hope we do get at least one woman racing again in FE. But they’re also putting themselves in potentially an awkward position if they have more and more female tests every year but we don’t end up with a woman on the grid. I still think it’s the right thing to do, even if it does end up just being testing only for years and years. But I really think they need to be looking at a female series run on FE weekends. I think without that, you’ll be very unlikely to get a girl come through from F4 and FE testing.

[@Nekonaut_aka_Jebus]

Dope.

[@jabsdrahm.3232]

Jamie has been hopping from type of car to another in recent weeks, so not bad result

[@PincheChineaux]

Yay Alexa!!!!

[@Ariespradana13]

Where's Miki Koyama 😔

[@justinsmalley4111]

Great Lamborghini and Ferrari driver in Japan!

[@Sebastianraikkonen_actualname]

This may shock you but Miki isn't the only female driver in the world. There's plenty more in the limelight failing.

[@katsukao727]

Miki Koyama was in 4th place, 0.016 seconds behind Bianca Bustamante in 3rd place. It's a shame that the afternoon test was rained out, but I'll continue to root for Miki.

[@arthurteo8111]

No disrespect to Man but Formula E really fits Women : it's Texture, Grace and Looks blend well with the feminine persona. Women really look good in Formula E.

[@naufalayrton9249]

3 second off the pace is not that bad for abbi, maybe she can be on the grid a few more years

[@sharpbleydz500]

Katherine Legge and Michela Cerruti beat you to it, ladies.

[@justinsmalley4111]

And Simona de Silvestro

[@edwardhunter7116]

@@justinsmalley4111 ​ @justinsmalley4111 She isn't in the video much but Simona was also in this test driving for Kiro Race.

[@danny_r27]

Why was Sophia not there? Thought she was supposed to drive for Nissan?

[@aidan404]

Had some prior sponsor commitment unfortunately that ended up clashing because the test got pushed back 1 day

[@izzataynalprasetya7654]

😮😮

[@richardhaiku]

The rules should just say for all races that have two cars per team, one driver should be female, the other male.

[@mk_annan22]

Already has that for Extreme E, which is now Extreme H in 2025

[@Heyn_17]

No, just no. Merit over gender.

[@hermyt]

We (especially men) should encourage women in everything!

[@TheYoutubeUser69]

Formula E should have battery swaps. I cant believe they are actually stopping the race to charge

[@ItsDeffoScott]

100% agree

[@lewis8552]

I think it's because the manufacturers see the fast charge as more road relevant, so want to showcase that tech. Agree though that battery swapping makes more sense, especially in a race setting.

[@hippyjason]

Great. Now stop with pho virtue signalling, and put one or two of the fastest gals in a full time race seat. Otherwise, you're just publically playing the DEI card, and trying to score points off of it, despite there being no actual changes to the grid.

[@flyaway6671]

Putting one in a seat would be virtue signalling lol, they are no where near fast enough.

[@hippyjason]

@@flyaway6671 Well, of course, lol. But if they did (and the lap times don't come) ,then the virtual signalers can STFU about it once and for all, and we can stop hearing about for a decade or so. If one of those women _were_ fast enough _they'd already be in a race seat._

[@lewis8552]

I think development role makes more sense. None of them are good enough to be on the grid but they can definitely be developed to being good enough. So hopefully one of the teams take one of the girls on in that sort of role.

[@Cloxxki]

Why were they 3-4 seconds slower than the men in the same cars? So much noise was made about it supposedly being special that it's equal material albeit a whole different day. Wet track? Less equal equipment after all? I guess the top women are around half a second slower than world champion level drivers like Evans, but not 3-4 seconds. Why does transparency take such a big hit when identity politics and virtue signaling take the stage?

[@Becky_Cooling]

1. Most of these drivers are at F4 level, if you took any F4 driver and put them in an FE they would probably be slower 2. For most of these drivers this is their first outing in an FE car, whereas almost all the men have been driving FE cars for years. 3. In tests like these, drivers often don't push to the limit, as they don't want to break the car. 4. By commenting here you are telling the KZbin algorithm that this video is good and it should show it to more people.

[@somerandomgirlliving4617]

I think it’s also because many of these women have never driven at this track before and for more than half of them it was their first time in a Formula E car, plus they “only” had four hours while the other drivers had like 24. That’s a big difference of track experience. Plus the top 5 at least were quicker than some of the most experienced drivers on the grid. I don’t think you should just cast that away. Overall this was a good step in the right direction, and it’s more than F1 will do. So I think we should see the positives of this test instead of criticizing it.

[@Becky_Cooling]

@@somerandomgirlliving4617 And to add to that, the men had time in the simulator before testing whereas the women didn't due to the last minute re-locating of testing

[@bastersturm]

@@Becky_Cooling i love your explanation and doing #4 to, thanks for your help.

[@DaKing141]

Instead of one of these women becoming an formula e driver WHY NOT CREAT A WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP? AND ALL OF THEM CAN DRIVE

[@mk_annan22]

Motorsport is a technology demonstration sport. Irrespective of gender.

[@DaKing141]

@mk_annan22 I get that but if they go the route I said then they go from maybe 1 or 2 Fe drivers to 20 in foul swoop. Just make snore sense to me